How to register an account on GitLab. Due to spam, new accounts are locked until approved by an admin or the approver bot. Your GitLab account gets automatically approved within one hour if you are a member of Trusted Contributors in Gerrit, or a member of the Trusted-Contributors group in Phabricator and linked your Developer account ("LDAP") to your Phabricator account. If none of these apply, file an unlock request to expedite access. Only if you are WMF staff: Create your GitLab account, have "Wmf" group membership in IDM, link your Developer account ("LDAP") to your Phabricator account, and get automatically approved.
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The Bitu LDAP server (ldap-ro.{eqiad,codfw}.wikimedia.org) uses a Let's Encrypt cert, not the WMF internal CA. The system CA bundle ships LE roots; the WMF CA file does not. Without an explicit LDAP_CA_CERT_PATH override, the sync would TLS-fail at the LDAPS handshake on first run.
Default LDAP_CA_CERT_PATH to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt, bringing it in line with SPEC.md.
Bug: T420691